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The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13th-14th Centuries

by: Robert Bedrosian

Topics: Armenian history, Turco-Mongolica, Turkish history, Mongol history, Altaica, Armenian Lords, Saljuqs, Mongols, Timurids, Azerbaijan, Invasions, Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Far East

Collection: robert-bedrosian-library; additional_collections

Language: English

Robert Bedrosian's Ph.D. dissertation (Columbia University, 1979), in 320 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version and links to additional resources. This study has two principal aims. A review of the salient political and military events associated with the Turco-Mongol invasions of Armenia is one aim. Who were the invaders, and in what ways were they alike and dissimilar?

The second aim of the study is an examination of the impact(s) of the invasions and domination(s) of the 13-14th centuries on Armenia's lordly naxarar rulers. While many aspects of both areas of investigation (i.e, regarding the invasions and dominations and their impacts) have already been examined by scholars, to the present no single study has focussed on the invasions of Armenia as phenomena. Similarly, while diverse aspects of Armenia's socio-eonomic and political history in the 13-14th centuries have been examined by others, no single study of the lordly heads of that society has as yet been undertaken. The present work, therefore, attempts to fill a void existing in Armenian scholarship. It is hoped that this study will likewise serve as an introduction to 13-14th century Armenian history for Western scholars, to whom Armenia in this period has remained terra incognita.